Woman revisits Lucy Maud Montgomery's honeymoon in Scotland

Awoman from Scotland will be sharing her story of retracing LucyMaudMontgomery'shoneymoon at an event in Bideford, P.E.I., this week.

Dianna Hemphillsaid she became interested in Montgomery after researching her owngenealogy and discovering she had common ancestors with the author.

"I first visited P.E.I. in the1990sand I loved it so much that my husband and I went back again a couple of times," she said.

Before returning for another visit in 2013,Hemphilldecided to visit all the places in Scotland that Montgomery wrote about in her journal.

"I got to the section of the honeymoon and I just tracked all the places she had been, and I followed up and did a modern version," said Hemphill.

HemphillretracedMontgomery's tripstarting in Glasgow, a place the author didn't like, and used the city as her base to go visit other locations.

She also tookphotographs of what the placeslook like today.

"She came toTrossachs, which iswhere I live, and she went toLochKatrinebecause she was very interested in Sir Walter Scott andThe Lady of the Lake,and she'd always wanted to go toLochKatrine, which is 20 minutes away from here," Hemphillsaid.

Montgomery's former residence

Hemphillwill present those photographs and describehow the locations have changed since 1911 Wednesday night inBideford, P.E.I.

The event is part of aseries at the Bideford Parsonage Museum and itfallson what would have been Montgomery and Rev.EwanMacDonald'swedding anniversary.

The museum is in the former home of where Montgomery boarded for a year when she taught school there in 1894.

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